When Problems become Weapons Solutions Are Not Sought

When Problems become Weapons Solutions Are Not Sought

Paul Craig Roberts

Congress Quietly Slips ‘Amnesty’ for Illegal Farm Workers into H.R. 9535 – 52 Republicans Back the “Securing Agriculture’s Workforce Act”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/11/congress-quietly-slips-amnesty-illegal-farm-workers-h/ 

What Congress has done with the welfare state is to make it more lucrative  to live on the dole than to work in the fields.  The solution has been to allow in illegals as they don’t qualify, supposedly, for welfare, although Democrats are changing that.  

The consequence of the dole being a preferred occupation to working in the field or slaughter house is that agri-business and chicken, pork, and beef producers are dependent on illegals for their work force, as are many hotels, motels, and restaurants.  Blocking entry and deporting illegals is problematic as the welfare state has eliminated an alternative work force. Thus, securing the border is at odds with securing a workforce.

Of course the estimated 30 million immigrant-invaders that Obama and Biden ushered into the US vastly exceeds the number of illegals needed to fill low-paying and unpleasant jobs.  It is possible to establish a guest worker program in which illegals are assigned to specific employers for, say, 5 years, and then returned to their home country. During the years of employment, employees could be required to build a fund for each guest worker that is his on his return to his home country.  In this way, guest workers would acquire some capital with which to improve circumstances for themselves and their family.

No doubt, such schemes have been thought of before.  The problem is the Democrats will fight the return of the guest workers, preferring to keep them as Democrat voters and as replacement for “racist white Americans.”   In other words, the left-wing Democrats would use the guest workers as a weapon against traditional Americans.

When a country has been divided by decades of demonizing white Americans, problems become weapons to be used against enemies and finding a solution is not the goal.